Wrapping Up

This course has been an opportunity for
you to begin to integrate the Metta Sutta into your life and
practice by investigating the original language of the sutta
and understanding its message directly.

In the Metta Sutta the Buddha:

teaches how a wise and skillful person— a person who wishes
to progress toward the goal of awakening — would hold themselves
in the world, describing an ethical base both a strategy
for attaining the goal of awakening as well as an expression
of the quality of one’s character.

offers guidance in practicing loving-kindness
meditation — cultivating the state of wishing well for
all beings — by offering encouragement and guidance on
how one should hold oneself while practicing the meditation
and by stirring us to develop a boundless mind to all beings,
to the entire world.

teaches that the attainment of wisdom — purification
of view and the ability to see clearly — arises
from diligent meditation practice developed upon a firm foundation
of virtue.

Just as when offered to the monks in the forest 2500
years ago, the Metta Sutta provides a theme for meditation that
gives rise to one of the most beautiful and fundamentally
wholesome states of mind of which we are capable.

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Continuing your study of metta

In the Metta Sutta the Buddha describes metta
practice as “divine
abiding” (brahma
vihara). You can study the brahma viharas in Liberating
the Heart: The Brahma Viharas, an Ashoka course taught
by Sharon Salzberg, guiding teacher, Insight Meditation Society.